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Issue 28 ½ : Winter 2010

Will Read For Food

Stuart Dischell Poetry Reading by STUART DISCHELL; Holly Goddard Jones Fiction Reading by HOLLY GODDARD JONES; Craig Nova Non-Fiction Reading by CRAIG NOVA; Portrait of Britney Spears, Kentwood, Louisianna, 1996 by RACHEL RICHARDSON; David Roderick Poetry Reading by DAVID RODERICK; Lee Zacharias Non-Fiction Reading by LEE ZACHARIAS

Tribute to Robert Watson

Origins by FRED CHAPPELL; A Tribute to Robert Watson: Poet, Novelist, Professor, Editor, Traveler to Inner and Outer Worlds by KELLY CHERRY; Greensboro 1967: Memories of Robert Watson by ROBERT MORGAN; Bob Watson Driving; Bob Watson Flying; Bob Watson Pulling Over by GEORGE SINGLETON

Issue 28 : Fall 2009

Special Feature: Anhinga Press

The Film | In the Orchard | The Dome | Empire of Wonder | Michigan Sestina by CHAD SWEENEY; All I Could See I Named Darkness | The Fish Cry Out from the Flames | Human Resources by RHETT ISEMAN TRULL; A Map of My Body | Dog in the Ditch, Lilian Springs Road | The Crying Baby Flight | How to Save a Life | Time of Death by RICK CAMPBELL; ‘Arranging the Blaze’ reviewed by STEFANIE SILVA; ‘The Real Warnings’ reviewed by DAVID BLAIR; ‘Dixmont’ reviewed by AMANDA RUTSTEIN

Fiction

Conservatory by CHRIS BACHELDER

Poetry

West Virginia by JENNIFER KEY; Suppose a Trot Line by ANDREW WELLS; A Map of Shanxi by ELIZABETH LINDSAY ROGERS; Ghazal for Christian | Dear John | The Dirty Work of Plans by RENEE SOTO; Iris by CATE WHETZEL; Flashlight Tag by KYLE BOOTEN; Age Two by ELIZABETH SWANN

Nonfiction

Stories Without Names and In Memory of Aunt Lizzie by TYLER SCOTT; ‘The Fireman’s Wife’ reviewed by ANNA WHITESIDE; ‘Dear Apocalypse’ reviewed by LAUREN MOSELEY; ‘Lucky, Lucky’ reviewed by TOM CHRISTOPHER; ‘Girl Trouble’ reviewed by TITA RAMIREZ

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Issue 27 : Spring 2009

Fiction

Syndication by GEORGE SINGLETON; The Cancer Diet by DANIEL WALLACE; Steve Cushman Fiction Reading by STEVE CUSHMAN; Kevin Wilson Fiction Reading by KEVIN WILSON

Poetry

Is There a Dead Mule in It by GREGORY DONOVAN; Elmisana Hives, Tombigbee River by ERIN LYNDAL MARTIN; Neighbor Curse | Storm’s A’Comin by CARRIE OEDING; Smell | Hearing | Vision by NATHANIEL PERRY; Hyacinths | New Jacks, New Jills by VIRGIL RENFROE; Peach Dream | Partial Psychoanalytic Transcript of Christmas Day by LIZ ROBBINS; Underneath the Pier by TRAVIS SMITH; Dinner with Family by S. CRAIG RENFROE, JR.; Fathers and Sons by GABRIEL DeCREASE; Sarah Lindsay Poetry Reading by SARAH LINDSAY

Nonfiction

Black Widow by LEE ZACHARIAS; ‘Fracture City’ reviewed by JAMEY BRADBURY; ‘The Dart League King’ reviewed by GLENN LESTER; ‘Twigs & Knucklebones’ reviewed by JOELLEN CRAFT; ‘Dirty Little Angels’ reviewed by MICHAEL GARRIGA; ‘Boy Returning Water to the Sea: Koans for Kelly Fearing’ reviewed by TONY AARTS; ‘Success: Stories’ reviewed by JENNIFER JULIAN; ‘Tunneling to the Center of the Earth’ reviewed by STEPHANIE WHETSTONE; The Magical Work of Fiction: An Interview with Daniel Wallace by DANIEL CROSS TURNER

Issue 26 : Fall 2008

NOTE: This issue was a “best of storySouth” retrospective, featuring the best fiction, poetry, nonfiction and art from storySouth’s first seven years.

Fiction

Johnny Cash Beset by Darkness by John Marshall Daniel; Professing Caliban by Richard Plant; Grappling by Jacob M. Appel; Spanish Geranium by J. Lynn Laughlin; Touch Me Here by Ronder Thomas Young; 7 Cornish Hens by Erich Sysak; The Mountain’s Laughter is a Landslide in the Seed Moon’s Light by J. M. Scoville; The Philosophical History of Corpus Christi, Mississippi by Josh Shepherd; A View from Eagle Rock Mountain by Krista McGruder

Poetry

Dunbar’s Apparition by Jim Murphy; Posterity / Posteridad by Lisette Garcia; fetter the pine by Abraham Smith; Bad Luck Cradle Song by Adam Clay; WPA by Jennifer Horne;From the Last Century by Al Maginnes; Valentine by Tara Powell; The Ten-Ton Blessing by Steve Scafidi; Some folks... by Tony Tost; What the Dead Dream by Beth Bachmann; Homage to Calvin Spotswood by Kate Daniels; The Biggest Jazz Funeral in History by Amy Letter; Twin, Disappearing by Janet McAdams; The Daughter by Janet McAdams; The Ghost the Night Becomes by D. Antwan Stewart; Watching Buzzards by Cassie Sparkman; Dragging Canoe Vanishes from the Bear Pit into the Endless Clucking of the Gods by Brian Barker; Fish Catcher by Melanie Carter; Everything from That Point On by Rhett Iseman Trull; Some Very Important Business by Todd McKinney; How to Make a Wolf by Leigh Anne Couch; Brother Todd and His Flock by David Bruzina; Twos and Fours by Jeremy Byars; Field Guide to Gentleness by Charlotte Matthews; Heaven Was Elsewhere by Stuart Dischell; Saturday Night Pantoum by Susan Meyers

Nonfiction

In Search of Home: A Sermon Outline by Jeremy Huggins; Hiding Harper Lee by W. A. Bilen; Welcome to Richmond, Miss Welty by Tyler Scott; Old 82 by Kevin Pritchard; Audubon Wallpaper by Lynn Strongin

Issue 25 : Spring/Summer 2008

Fiction

Broken Wing by Beth Kantz; In the Desert by James Pate; The Good Man by Nathan Leslie; Mockingbirds by Claire Carpenter

Poetry

And Who Will Come for You? by Jonathan Fink; Bossier Parish by Rachel Richardson; My Wife Teaching Me to Swim by CL Bledsoe; West Virginia vs. Extractive Industry by Doug Van Gundy; Underground by Pia Taavila; Postcard II: Palmetto and Pine by James Brock; Moving Day by Luke Johnson; synesthesia after anesthesia by Kathryn Kirkpatrick; Hurricane in Halves by Allan Peterson; The Cook and the Lady by David Bruzina; One in the community by Nettie McDaniel; Happy Pelican by Donna Levine Gershon; Illustrating an answer to a question through the order in which a bird reveals letters by eating the grains set on top of them by Joshua Poteat; Three poems by Elizabeth Volpe; Two poems by Doug Ramspeck

Issue 24 : Winter 2008

Fiction

Featured fiction: The View from My Father’s Window by CHARLES ROSE

More fiction: The Plastic Flower Option by ROBERT B. TRAVIS; Don’t You Want Something New? by JESSICA MYERS-SCHECTER; Velvet by JOEY BROWN; A Personal Ad for Tide Pools by WENDI BERRY; Maybe You’ve Been Lucky by JOHN H. TIBBETTS

Poetry

Poetry Special Feature: Six Poems by CATHY SMITH BOWERS; An Interview with Cathy Smith Bowers by JULIE FUNDERBURK

More poetry: Two Poems by TEMPLE CONE; Two Poems by GEOFF MUNSTERMAN; Two Poems by CLAIRE DIXON; Two Poems by TAMMY TRENDLE; Two Poems by JULIA JOHNSON; Old Rob and the Free-Range Chickens by JOHN LANE; Proximity by WENDY MILES; Zombie by LESLEY WHEELER; US Route 50 by BRIAN SPEARS; Manifesto: Thoughts of Theory by LAURA CARTER; Cankerworms by EMILY BENTON

Issue 23 : Fall 2007

Fiction

Featured fiction: Johnny Cash Beset by Darkness by John Marshall Daniel

More fiction: Penmanship by Matthew Cashion; A Little Honey and a Little Sunlight by Gretchen McCullough; The Queen of Swords by Jen Michalski; To the Races by Emily J. Stinson

Poetry

Poetry Special Feature: Six Poems by CATHY SMITH BOWERS; An Interview with Cathy Smith Bowers by JULIE FUNDERBURK

More poetry: Dragging Canoe Vanishes from the Bear Pit into the Endless Clucking of the Gods by Brian Barker; Two Poems by Ryland Bowman; Four Quarters, Two Dimes & A Nickel by Julie Buffaloe-Yoder; Two Poems by Catherine MacDonald; Two Poems by Billy Reynolds; Levelheaded by Daniel Saalfeld; Two Poems by Emily Symonds; Two Poems by Jeanie Thompson; Three Poems by Rhett Iseman Trull

Nonfiction

Because It’s Summer, I’m Defending Shorts by Nathan Long; This, Too, is Vanity by C.D. Mitchell; The Best of Bad Luck by Gretchen McCullough; Stripping the Splintered Stocks by John Heckman Wright

Editors’ essays

Ranking online magazines and journals by Jason Sanford; Review: 2008 Novel and Short Story Writer’s Market by Jason Sanford

Issue 22 : Summer 2007

Fiction

Featured fiction: Spanish Geranium by J. Lynn Laughlin

More fiction: A Matter of Perspective by Lee Dresselhaus; Mercury Falling by Phillip Gardner; Moles by Mark McBride

Poetry

Poetry special feature: Five Poems by Christine Garren; An Interview with Christine Garren by Terry Kennedy

More fiction: Two Poems by Martin Arnold; Twos and Fours by Jeremy Byars; From the Silence of Many Trees by Temple Cone; Conditions by Stephen Hitchcock; It Means Something Different in Arabic by Saeed Jones; Backwater Blues by Anna Journey; Two Poems by Charlotte Matthews; Two Poems by Todd McKinney; Three Poems by Susan Meyers; Three Poems by Nick Norwood; Confession by Alexis Orgera; Consolations by Allan Peterson; Departure by Laura Van Prooyen; The Rattlesnake by Clela Reed

Nonfiction

The House In Simi Valley by Darlin’ Neal; Welcome to Richmond, Miss Welty by Tyler Scott; Gray Matter by Alexis Wiggins

Editors’ essays

State of the Short Story by Scott Yarbrough; Josie Fowler and her final book by Jason Sanford

Issue 21 : Winter 2007

Fiction

Featured fiction: Professing Caliban by Richard Plant

More fiction: Muck Dam by Bonnie Roop Bowles; On the Diving Rock by Jessica D. Cox, A Mostly Sunny Sky by A.M. Garner; Wichita Falls by Katherine Lieban; Creative Memories by Brigitte N. McCray

Poetry

Special Feature: Seven Poems by Barbara Hamby; An Interview with Barbara Hamby by Dan Albergotti.

More poetry: Three Poems by Melanie Carter; Amber fields by DeLana Dameron; Four Poems by Stuart Dischell; Two Poems by Jilly Dybka; The God-Haunted by JD Hughes; Three Poems by Holly Karapetkova; Two Poems by Judy Loest; Two Poems by Janet McAdams; Three Poems by Sara Pennington; Lures by Michele Poulos, and First Grade by Anne Dyer Stuart

Nonfiction

Does Size Matter: How Much Truck Is Enough? by Darrell Fike; Summer Avenue by Ellen Morris Prewitt; Bluebird of Unhappiness by Cherri Randall; Myths, Legends, and Tall Tales: One Southern Boy’s Ramblings with Mike Resnick by Jason Sanford; Review of The Known World by Edward P. Jones by Dan Schneider

Editors’ essays

Confessions from the man who single-handedly destroyed poetry as we know it! by Jason Sanford; Interzone: 25 Years of Quality British Speculative Fiction by Jason Sanford; Why editors liked your story and still rejected it by Jason Sanford

Issue 20 : Fall 2006

Fiction

Featured fiction: Black Pork by Greg Downs

More fiction: Grappling by Jacob M. Appel; Yes by Chris Gavaler; State of Misfortune by S.E. Rindell; 7 Cornish Hens by Erich Sysak; Indian Pink by Kim Whitehead; Family Five and Dime by PJ Woodside

Poetry

Special Feature: Five poems by Rodney Jones; An Interview with Rodney Jones by Patrick Phillips and Billy Reynolds

More poetry: Three Poems by David Bruzina; Southern Fried Love Goddess by Gayla Chaney; Three poems by Leigh Anne Couch; Resting over Flat Branch Creek by Daren Dean; Crying in the Chattahoochee on the Alabama Side by Leann Wise Lindsey; Three Poems by Charlotte Matthews; The Route by Laine Perry; Three Poems by Nate Pritts

Nonfiction

In Any Event by Ryan McIlvain; All The Real Girls (a DVD review) by Dan Schneider; Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, Who’s the Most Mediagenic of Them All? by Sabra Wineteer; Famous Jewish Criminals by Diana J. Wynne

Editors’ essays

Essays: The Return of Brad Vice by Jason Sanford; Why has the New York Times ignored the passing of author Jack Williamson? by Jason Sanford; Stranger than Fiction: When novels become attack ads by Jason Sanford; In search of a lost poem: “Andy-Diana DNA Letter” by Andrew Weiman by Jason Sanford

Reviews: Southern Gothic Online...and in Print by Jason Sanford; Review of Spit Baths by Greg Downs by Scott Yarbrough

Issue 19 : Spring/Summer 2006

Fiction

Featured fiction: Things You Can Expect From Your Loved Ones by David S. Levinson

More fiction: A Sip of Light by Liliana V. Blum, trans. Toshiya Kamei; Indoor Plumbing by Greg Downs; Intruder by Janna McMahan; And It Burned by Philip Shirley; Mom Didn’t Want Her Girls Playing With Guns by Dusty Whales

Poetry

Special Feature: Five Poems by Patrick Phillips; The History of the Personal and The Personal in History: The Poetry of Patrick Phillips by Billy Reynolds

More poetry: Two Poems by Kristi Maxwell; 20th Annual Reunion of Iconic Southern Photographs by James Thomas Miller; Two Poems by Susan R. Williamson; Two Poems by Nicholas Reading; Sacred Grounds by Marissa McNamara Williams; The Tragic Mulatto, or One-Drop Rule* Hits the Silver Screen (ca. 1930) by M. Ayodele Heath; My Arkansas by Lindsay Wirth; Crossing Over by Kimberly L. Becker; Two Poems by Kelle Groom; Three Poems by Keith Montesano; Three Poems by Kathryn Kirkpatrick; Three Poems> by Jonathan Moody; Three Poems by Jennifer Horne; Sardis Lake at Hurricane Landing by James Everett; Two Poems by Sheree Renee Thomas; Two Poems> by Ellen Goldstein; Two Poems by David Ingle; my father’s manuscript by Daniel Robbins; Intimacies in Borrowed Light by D. Antwan Stewart; Dead Fox by Chris Tusa; Three Poems by Austin Segrest; Two Poems by Jack Boettcher; Two Poems by Al Maginnes

Nonfiction

The Union Maid by Jessica Handler; T. Coraghessan Boyle and Surviving the Baby Boom by Jason Sanford

Editors’ essays

Essays regarding submissions: Duotrope’s Digest is an excellent submission tool for writers by Jason Stanford; The fast and slow on submission responses by Jason Stanford; Print or electronic: the 2007 Novel and Short Story Writer’s Market and online submission databases by Jason Stanford

Reviews: Review of Fountains of Youth by Stephen Ausherman by Scott Yarbrough; The Sorrow Psalms: new poetry anthology revives interest in elegies by Jason Sanford; Drivers, a new short story collection by Nathan Leslie by Jason Sanford; Oxford American’s spring 2006 issue by Jason Sanford

More essays: Honoring 9-11 Victim Gopal Varadhan by Jason Sanford; Knowledge Smackdown: Wikipedia vs. Citizendium by Jason Sanford; Reviving Gustav Hasford by Jason Sanford; In search of a lost poem: “Andy-Diana DNA Letter” by Andrew Weiman by Jason Sanford

Issue 18 : Winter 2006
Special Issue : Southern Women Writers

Fiction

Featured fiction: The Best Doctor by Karen SagstetterMore fiction: Long Hot Hill by Rebecca Cook; Save All My Children and Grandchildren by Janice Daugharty; A Desert Carcass by Errid Farland; Aventura by Tsipi Keller; Letters from Mercury by Jessica Schneider

Poetry

Special Feature: Poets Who Are Women and Southern by Tara Powell; Four Poems by Kathryn Stripling Byer; Four Poems by Wendy Carlisle; Four Poems by Kate Daniels; Four Poems by Cathryn Hankla; Four Poems by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers; Four Poems by Marly Youmans

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